RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Kojiki, Gautama Buddha, Kami
20 Mar 2016
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Ii. seclusion of women, mourning and taboo against the body. Tama furi: shaking the beads or stirring the soul > done over the body of the old king. His soul is transferred at this point from the old king"s body to the new king"s: the final viewing: when everyone would look at the body of the dead king (could last for about. 45 days: no important decisions made during the period between kings. Izanaki is crawling and weeping selection of the new king and tame furi. Izanagi does tamafuri with 3 children final viewing of corpse and burial. The factual life of the buddha: his name is siddhartha gautama, the buddha has 2 main titles, the buddha (awakened one, sakyamuni (sage of the sakyas) Lived in northern indian and nepal in approximately 563-483 bce about 500 years before. I. it could be true, but it is called a legend because there are not many facts.
